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New York City's Chop't salad chain coming to Greenwich

Chop't Creative Salad Company to open Riverside store in Fall

Brittany Lyte
| on July 23, 2014

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ChopâÄôt Creative Salad Co. will open its first Connecticut location in the Riverside Commons shopping center this fall. The fast food salad chain specializes in custom salads made with locally sourced foods. less

ChopâÄôt Creative Salad Co. will open its first Connecticut location in the Riverside Commons shopping center this fall. The fast food salad chain specializes in custom salads made with locally sourced ... more

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New York City's Chop't salad chain coming to Greenwich

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A popular New York salad chain is set to open its first Connecticut location in Riverside.

Chop't Creative Salad Co., a fast-food bar specializing in custom salads and sandwiches made with fresh local ingredients, will open this fall at the former home of Riverside Deli in the Riverside Commons shopping plaza at 1253 E. Putnam Ave., according to Chop't Marketing Director Lysa Chen.

"It will be so welcome here," said Greenwich Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Marcia O'Kane. "Anyone who has ever worked in New York City knows what a convenience it is to have these healthy, quick, chopped salads that you can customize to your own liking."

Chop't owns two dozen restaurants, half of which are in New York. Others are in the Washington, D.C., area.

The menu of the Greenwich restaurant will be consistent with Chop't's other locations, offering 50 salad toppings and sandwich fillings as well as five kinds of lettuce and more than two dozen options for dressing. The latter menu ranges from the conventional -- such as balsamic vinaigrette and creamy Caesar dressings -- to more exotic options, including a lemon-tahini dressing and jalapeno pesto. For those who don't like to build their own meals, Chop't also offers a menu of prepared salads and sandwiches, which is also a mix of the classic (Cobb, Caesar) and the inventive (such as the Mexicali Vegan, which includes avocado, hearts of palm and other delicacies).

"The company is growing quite rapidly, so we're expanding, A lot of our customers at this location live in Connecticut and they've been wanting their own store. Now they're getting it."

The Greenwich store will be the company's third suburban location, said Nick Theo, assistant manager of Chop't in Rye Brook, N.Y. He said it will have a larger dining section than the Chop't locations in New York City. "It will be a little bit different because it will be more geared toward suburban customers," he said.

Restaurant co-founder Tony Shure prefers to think of the new location as "the product of all of the lessons we've learned over the past 14 years," he said in an emailed statement. "We've made it more convenient to grab a salad or a snack and more comfortable to come enjoy a meal with your family. What has stayed the same is our commitment to the creativity of our dressings inspired by flavors from around the world."